In a world with man made climate change, hurricanes should have sponsor labels like NASCAR.

“Hurricane Milton is brought to you by British Petroleum”.

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This is identical to another shower thought from yesterday

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There’s no such thing as bad exposure, so no, they should not get free advertising for catastrophies they’ve caused.

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People who say that have never boycott something in their life.

If there was no bad publicity, PR firms would not exist.

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Purdue pharmaceuticals got some pretty bad PR for the opioid crisis that got turned into settlement money, maybe we can finally use that model to get us some UBI as climate justice

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The sponsorships should be for companies that thrive because they make products that increase global warming (or use them), which is most companies, so I digress.

It should also be an involuntary thing. Getting a natural disaster assigned to you should be a badge of shame, and any company named for it should be obligated to help with relief efforts.

Given the negative PR and cost for providing relief, I’m betting that quite a few would clean things up pretty quickly so they don’t earn the badge of shame. Maybe enough to slow or stop global climate change.

But all of this requires that we care more about people and the climate than we do about corporations and their profits. Since it’s been made clear that the government is basically bought and owned by corporate interests, this will never happen.

The solution is to supplant the existing government with one that actually represents the interests of the people that live in the country, not the corporations.

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We’d run out of companies though

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Just keep repeating the same companies, they can pay for relief each time.

I don’t really see a problem.

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Only if when they show the radar of it on the weather reports, it’s got a corporate logo superimposed over it spinning across Florida.

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No they should be sponsored by the politicians who refuse to aid those affected.

Hurricane Ron DeSantis

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